Belize Caye Fest

"Black History Month" remembers Belizean Icons who graced" Belize Caye Fest" since 1988 PLEASE LIKE AND SHARE AND LEAVE YOUR COMMENTS ABOUT YOUR EXPERIENCES WITH THEIR PERFORMANCES. www.belizecayefest.com

THANKS BE UNTO GOD Welcome to another tuesday night of THE LIGHTHOUSE OUTREACH MINISTRY serving up another GRANDSLAM SPECIAL HOMEMADE STEAK SOUP for o...ur lovely guest of SKIDROW A heartful thank you to THE BELIZE CAYEFEST OUTREACH PROGRAM for their continueous donation that helps to make all of what you're seeing possible. Our guest sends their thankful gratitude to you all .....amen Blessings upon Blessings....in Jesus name....amen Pastor Roy and Evangelist Denise Williams Elder (Nov 23rd 2020) ( Covid 19 Blessings) See more

Hello Everyone ...... Its time once again for ( DONOR DONATION APPRECIATION) Everyone please help (THE LIGHTHOUSE OUTREACH MINISTRY) Pastor Roy and E...vangelist Denise Williams Elder to show some much appreciation to one of our faithful Donors..... ( THE BELIZE CAYEFEST OUTREACH PROGRAM MR Patrick Barrow) for thier faithful Continuous DONATIONS in helping to keep our LESS FORTUNATE FRIENDS of our HOMELESS COMMUNITY of SKIDROW Safe and Protected from COVID 19 Virus.....amen Thank you once again and we pray that your blessings basket overflows in Jesus Name Amen See more

-- Belize Caye Fest 2019 -- BELIZEAN CULTURAL ARTS AND MUSIC FAIR FESTIVAL Belize's Largest Park Fest comes alive with Belizean Stars & Super Stars. July 7th 1pm - 9pm Leimert Park Village, Los Angeles CA 90008... Entrance Fee: FREE (a treat you cannot resist) Whereas: Belize Caye Fest 2019 fundraiser will help fund "Education in Arts, Music, & Culture" OUR FUND DRIVE STARTS SUNDAY JUNE 23RD 2019, we will be begging you to Donate, Donate, Donate Team Productions: Belize Music World / Radio Belize Mix / Luxury City Entertainment / Twin World Travel / SelFactualizeMe / TEA TIME / Spaced Out Studio / Ras Khattuce . in association with Consortium For Belizean Development, Inc 501 (c) 3 non profit www.belizecayefest.com

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THE ART OF A PERSON! SIR COLVILLE YOUNG! BELIZEAN ARTIST EXTRAORDINAIRE & CULTURAL ICON!... (Special Tribute to Sir Colville Young: Governor General of Belize) By Bilal Morris Throughout the 2019 Belize Caye Fest in Los Angeles, California, the proud and astute image of Sir Colville Young, Belize's Governor General for years now, caught my attention and touched me deeply. It brought me back to my high school days in the 70s in Belize when he was our principal at St. Michaels College that brought out of me the artistic spirit that has become my literary and artistic forte. "The Doctor" as we called him was an exceptionally brilliant mind that made a tremendous impact on many of us today who have made something of ourselves. Being a teenager who was searching for that within us that we didn't know yet, he inspired for me a whole generation of brilliant Belizean artists and personalities who were fortunate to have been taught by him. Doc had also crossed my childhood as a boy being coached by him in a St. John's Primary School Standard II performing arts group that played at the Bliss's Festival of Arts. The song we sang and played was the Belizean traditional song, "Mr. Martin Leaky Old Dory". The music and play is still clear in my head, and our rehearsing it under his magnetic artistic style, he made us practice and acted out that song to perfection. On the day of the performance at the Bliss, we stole the show and won a prize. The colorful Caribbean style costumes he allowed us to design using our own creativity was one of the reasons why we won. Mine was a swaging frilly pants with many colorful pieces of cloth draping down, and a painted stenciled T-shirt wore with a frilly straw hat my dad loan me that he used on Christmas Day with his Bram and Brukdong band. In reflecting on the theme of the Belizean folk song, it dramatized the village life of Belizean Kriole men who became one of the same with the Caribbean sea, being fishermen and laborers of the former British Honduras now Belize. Dr. Young was deeply into Belizean Kriole culture that epitomizes the linguistic and anthropology of the black people of that country who came to Belize as slaves, cut the mahogany for the British colonialist, and built the nation state of Belize. While he was our principal at St. Michael's for about three years, we had heard him discuss with us students the richness of the Belizean Kriole culture and language while placing an important value on writing and speaking the Queen's English to the best of our ability. The vernacular of his Kriole lingua franca was amazing, and as he spoke it and show us it's connection to the English Language as a form of broken English, his posture and presentation was captivating. He would pass by our classroom though he was not our teacher, and suddenly call out to a student in the class to sit upright and pay attention. He did his rounds like that, and there was a kind of fear of him though his demeanor did not express any kind of harsh headmaster's strictness. He was able to mix the creative arts with an exciting academic inspiration that drag you into the world of learning as something fun as well as liberating. My soul drew close to it, and Dr. Young's aura as an academician of exquisite caliber, transcended positively upon many of us at the all boys Anglican high school that had developed a reputation for educational excellence since the 1940s in Belize. One day he substituted in one of our second form English classes, and had us copy verbatim from the board an entire essay about art. As he completely wrote out the piece with chalk on the board in one of the most precise and cursive handwriting, he walked gingerly through the class with a slick smile on his face to check and correct any kind of crooked handwriting. He was so meticulous in his style that every "T" had to be crossed in his drilling us to take pride in our penmanship. While running a school and organizing his teachers, Doc also took pride in developing the creativity in his students with music appreciation classes. In between breaks in our class schedules, he took us to the library and encouraged us to read books about the best of European composers like Beethoven and Mozart. It was the part that made me became so very excited about my education at St. Michael's. In my still remembering the opening sentence of the essay on art that begins with the line, "The art of a person begins when someone in the community feels the urge to create", it is amazing how much memorizing and learning the whole essay became a technique in education in the day. Gracing his presence recently in Belize City at one of the Public's Supermarket in 2019, my curiosity had always asked me to probe him about his artistic and linguistic works. And so my approaching and questioning him about the essay on art drew his attention and he gave me a big smile. However, he didn't remember anything about it at all because he explained that it was so long ago and that he had taught so many students over the years as an educator. Dr. Colville Young's doctoral thesis and dissertation was done on the cultural and linguistic aspects of the Belizean Kriole language. There are many that have said that Kriole is only a dialect but it appears that Doc's academic work in Caribbean linguistics had put that to rest that Kriole is actually a language. During my college education here in the United states, his famous book on Belizean Kriole proverbs was used frequently in my broadcast journalism and communication studies classes. At one time, one American professor liked it so much that he borrowed my one and only copy that he never returned. But Belizean students of language, communication studies and history are encouraged to find Dr. Colville Young's doctoral dissertation on the metathesis of Belizean Kriole and study it. It will perhaps reawaken again that spark in Belizean history that has gone missing for so long now. As he walked among some of the most dynamic African-American cultural and political dignitaries at the Leimert Park cultural and entertainment venue here on this memorable photo at the 2019 Belize Caye Fest in the Crenshaw District in South Central Los Angeles, it is obvious that the man that wrote the acclaimed Belizean song, "Birds Isle", is a Belizean man of prestige and dignity. Embraced by their respect and appreciation for him, it was a moment of pride for me to see "The Doctor" within an artistic domain that he had become a legend of as one of Belize's most accomplished and acclaimed Belizean artist extraordinaire and cultural icon. The song "Birds Isle: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHbspnr5_nI (Photo through the courtesy of Clyde Gillett. Respect to Patrick Barrow of the Belize Caye Fest & Belize Music World, right of photo with Belize's Governor General, Dr. Colville Young, second from right)

A Taste of Belize Caye Fest @ Bird's Isle Sept 10th. 1989 feat: Babylon Warriors , Calypso Rose & Santino Messengers, Revival group from Orange Walk www.belizecayefest.com

Roll-Back, Sept 10th, 1989 Belize Caye Fest @ Birds Isle Happy 10th September 2020 "AS WE CELEBRATE" Stay Safe WATCH A TASTE OF SOME VIDEO FOOTAGE OF CAYE FEST @ BIRD'S ISLE feat: BABYLON WARRIORS & CALYPSO ROSE @ 5:00PM Sunday Sept. 13th Belize time. www.belizecayefest.com

St. Joseph Anglican Preschool's Principal and Teacher would like to remind our parents to pick up Learning packages for our students on Monday, September 7 star...ting at 9 a.m. Kindly wear your masks and follow social distancing protocols. A 'First Day of Preschool' surprise awaits our boys and girls! See more

On The Way To Belize, from Los Angeles. Caye Fest 2020 BACK TO SCHOOL SUPPLIES 4 Schools, plus a surprised 5th School Caye Fest TEAM, would like to thank ...all our donors, supporters, friends and relatives who donated towards the essential school supplies. Phase #1, 6 boxes shipped to 5 Schools. Phase #2 We are supporting the Belize economy, by purchasing at the stores in Belize more added essential items needed for our 5 Schools. *Wesley Upper School, *Ebenezer School, *Hattieville Government School, *St. Peters Claver RC School, Punta Gorda, *St Joseph Anglican Preschool, Punta Gorda was chosen for our surprised 5th School. A special thanks to our CF TEAM members for organizing dis Fund Drive in middle of this COVID-19 pandemic to helped towards the need of many of our school children in our home town Belize. Belize Music World, Ras Khattuce Twin World Travel, Luxury City Entertainment, Radio Belize Mix, TEA TIME, SelfActualizeMe, Inc, DJ No-Side, Shereda Jones in Belize. www.belizecayefest.com See more

Roll-Back 1996 The largest Belizean Festival BELIZE CAYE FEST, in Los Angeles www.belizecayefest.com https://youtu.be/8VUM48mUNA8

Our Belizean Stars shine bright on center stage @ Caye Fest 2013 @ Hollywood Park Casino, Inglewood, CA www.belizecayefest.com

Belize Caye Fest 2013

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Wesley Upper School in Belize ask for your help. PLEASE JOIN OUR FUNDRAISER TO HELP 4 SCHOOLS IN BELIZE FOR CHILDREN THAT NEEDS ESSENTIAL SUPPLIES" *St Peter Cl...aver School in PG, *Ebenezer School *Hattieville Government School, *Wesley Upper School more info visit: www.belizecayefest.com SelfActualizeMe, Inc 501 (c) 3 non-profit USA contact: Patrick 661-210-9132. Elaine (323) 306-3782 Belize contact: Shereda 011-501-610-8733 See more

"Giving back to our Belizean children in need" --Freight Shipping leaves for Belize Aug 9th-- If you wish to donate, please check list below for needed School supplies you could purchase @ any Office Supply Store. DROP OFF @ LITTLE BELIZE RESTAURANT, Inglewood and SEABREEZE RECORDS. THE LIST support, by donating needed essential items on THE LIST... Back To School Essential Supplies for Belize This fundraiser continues thru entire month of July 2020! Please donate generously. Misc. items on the list /pic you can purchase to put in the Barrel. DROP OFF LOCATIONS *Little Belize Restaurant, 217 E. Nutwood St. Inglewood , CA (310) 674-0696 *Seabreeze Records, 3566 S Western Ave. Los Angeles, CA (323) 731-2927 YOUR SUPPORT, BENEFIT 4 SCHOOLS *Wesley Upper/Lower School *Hattieville Goverment School *Ebenezer School *St. Peter Claver School, PG DONATION PayPal: [email protected] ZELLE: [email protected] CASH APP: $edisonsmithsr www.belizecayefest.com Patrick (661) 210-9132, Elaine (323) 306-3782 In Belize contact: Shereda 011-501-610-8733